4 top science, technology schools reject all applicants with record of bullying

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology campus within the central metropolis of Daejeon. [YONHAP]

 
All applicants with data of faculty bullying had been rejected within the 2026 early admissions rounds on the nation’s 4 main science and technology institutes, together with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kaist).
 
Data submitted to Democratic Party Rep. Hwang Jung-a, a member of the National Assembly’s Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, confirmed that each early admissions applicant who obtained level deductions for a faculty bullying record failed to realize admission at Kaist, the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST).
 
At Kaist, 12 early admissions applicants had been penalized for college bullying data, and all 12 had been rejected. At GIST and UNIST, two and one applicant, respectively, obtained deductions and had been rejected.
 
At DGIST, applicants who had been topic to disciplinary measures No. 4 by means of No. 9 for college violence — starting from neighborhood service to expulsion — weren’t allowed to use within the first place.
 
“School bullying leaves lifelong scars on victims, and it must not be dismissed as a youthful mistake,” Hwang mentioned, including that time deductions in faculty admissions weren’t meant to punish or model applicants however to show perpetrators that they have to take accountability for wrongdoing.

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BY HYEON YE-SEUL [[email protected]]